Tickets are on sale for BBC Proms at The Glasshouse whose return with a clutch of varied concerts will be music to the ears of all who enjoyed last year’s inaugural weekend mini-season. It puts the North East music centre on a par with the Royal Albert Hall and provides a weekend home for the …
There’s an urban myth about a star solo violinist asked to stand-in at the last minute for an unwell colleague, who only discovers the concerto he is playing is Mendelssohn not Mozart after the lights go down and the orchestra strikes up the opening note. This is a musician’s in-joke based on the fact that, …
Rumour has it that The Glasshouse bosses were nervous nobody would turn up, having programmed an entire weekend of music by a cultish but heavy-going Austrian country boy born 200 years ago. Forget the nerves – the Big Bruckner Weekend pulled in packed houses drawn by the unique opportunity to hear the composer’s final three …
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